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Microsoft technology is underpinning one of India’s largest labour-market platforms, helping the government register more than 310 million informal workers and steer them towards jobs, skills training and social security.

The e-Shram database and the National Career Service platform both run on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. The government is using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service to power tools that help workers identify skills gaps, plan careers and prepare résumés as part of a wider effort to formalise informal employment.

India launched e-Shram in August 2021 to create a national record

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